Improvement in cooking-stoves



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Cooking-Stuns.

Patented Dec. 2,1873.

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IMPROVEMENT IN COOKlNG-STOVE S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,089, dated December2, 1873; application filed October 20, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD H. BROWN, of Linneus, Linn county, State ofMissouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cooking-Stoves,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being hereby had to the annexed drawing making part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a central longitudinal sectionalelevation. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional tion, may be of anydesirable form. B represents the fuel-chamber, and G the ash-pit. Drepresents a grate-arranged to dump. At the bot-tom of the ash-pit asitter, E, is placed. It is operated by a handle, F, extending throughthe side of the stove. Just below the sifter theash pit forks intotapering vertical passages G G, (shown more distinctly in Fig. 2,) thatlead down through the bottom of the stove. Below the line of theovenbottom the passages G G are preferably formed by bending into acircular shape, at their forward ends, the strips H H, that are used toform the bottom fines of the stove. Underneath the passages G G, andbelow the stove, an ash-pan, I, Figs. 1 and 2, is placed, to-receive theashes. The ash-pan is preferably arranged to fit snugly into guides onthe under side of the bottom plate of the stove. In their course throughthe oven J the passages G G are preferably arranged closely against thefront plate of the stove. Underneath the oven, however,I prefer toarrange them, as above described, at the ends of the flue-strips H H,leaving an open flue-space forward of the passages across the stove.

K represents a hot-water reservoir, arranged as described in Patentgranted me August 26,

1873, No. 142,080, underneath the hearth-plate, and upon the extendedside plates, of the stove. The fines of the stove are preferablyarranged so as to conduct the heated products of combustion along thecentral part of the stove during the first part of their course. Thecontents of the grate being dumped in the ashpit by the operation of thesifter, the coarser parts are separated, to be replaced in the grate, ifdesired, and the ash is caused to fall down into the pan beneath thestove.

The, ash-passages G G require but a small amount of metal in theirmanufacture, can be readily attached in any ordinary cookingstove, andare especially valuable in stoves provided with a hot-water reservoir,constructed as above described; for thereby the ashes can be removed byan agency that does not interfere with the proper heating of thereservoir. A further advantage accruing is, that the ash-pan can beremoved with its contents without the need of opening any door of thestove, and thereby interfering with the draft of the stove and causingthe smoke to pufl' out from the cracks above, as is frequently the casein the ordinary construction; and, in'thns being readily detachable, theashpan can be used as a dust-receptacle. It will also be observed thatthe space used by the ash-passages is reduced to a minimum, and that theash-pan, while convenient to reach, occupies a position where it is outof the Way, and that otherwise would be unoccupied.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, is-

1. In a stove, A, the ash-pit G, the passages G G, pan I, and reservoirK, combined, arranged, and operating substantially as described andshown.

2. In a stove, A, the ash-pit G, passages G G, sifter E, pan I, andreservoir K, combined, arranged, and operating substantially as described and shown.

RICHARD H. BROWN.

Witnesses T. H. FLoon, THos. BRoWNLEE.

